RE: Is there free will in heaven?
October 31, 2011 at 10:28 am
(This post was last modified: October 31, 2011 at 10:31 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Perhaps I can so easily recognize the despot, the tyrant, and the facist for he what he is (speaking directly towards your god construct) because I've acknowledged the fact that these urges exist within me. In fact, aren't I always suggesting that your god is a front for your own values, your own prejudices? If I had the need and will to believe in a god it would likely end up being similar to your own, because I'm a human being, same as yourself. We have a demonstrable penchant for tyrant gods (that are predictably on our side). The sane among us don't assume god has to be a tyrant simply because we so often imagine him to be so. The sane instead prefer to explain that tyrant gods give us insight into what motivates ourselves, each other, and definitively not the cosmos itself.
Your god and my own inner tyrant are family, and they recognize each other immediately. The difference between you and I in this regard (it would seem), is that I'm not under any delusions that put that part of my psyche at the helm of the cosmic ship as you have done with yours.
Your god and my own inner tyrant are family, and they recognize each other immediately. The difference between you and I in this regard (it would seem), is that I'm not under any delusions that put that part of my psyche at the helm of the cosmic ship as you have done with yours.
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